The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 78 or 78?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 78?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|78| = ?
The absolute value of 78 is the distance between 78 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 78:
Since the distance between 78 and 0 on a number line is 78, we get the answer as follows:
|78| = 78
Note that the absolute value of 78 can also be written as abs(78) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 79
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